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Mozilla 1.0 Released
Jun 5, 2002, 17 :30 UTC (7 Talkback[s]) (2094 reads)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--June 5, 2002--Mozilla.org, the organization
that coordinates Mozilla open-source development and provides
services to assist the Mozilla community, today announced the release
of Mozilla 1.0, the first major-version public release of the Mozilla
software. A full-fledged browser suite based on the latest Internet
standards as well as a cross-platform toolkit, Mozilla 1.0 is
targeted at the developer community and enables the creation of
Internet-based applications. Mozilla 1.0 was developed in an open
source environment and built by harnessing the creative power of
thousands of programmers and tens of thousands of testers on the
Internet, incorporating their best enhancements.
Built on the Gecko layout engine, Mozilla 1.0 is cross-platform and
integrates a core set of applications that allow users to access the
capabilities of the Web, including a web browser, an email reader and
a chat client. Gecko is the core browser component in Mozilla 1.0 and
was developed as part of the mozilla.org open source project; it is
freely available for inclusion in third party products. Mozilla 1.0
uses Gecko to deliver the most advanced, standards-compliant browser
across platforms; the ease of embedding Gecko brings the same power
to desktop applications as well as devices. The release of Mozilla
1.0 signals a new level of compatibility and maturity of the
programming interfaces provided by Gecko, and paves the way for the
arrival of new Gecko-based products.
In addition, Mozilla 1.0 is a cross-platform toolkit for developing
Internet-based applications. By offering a set of components that can
be used in a wide range of applications, are all open source, free of
charge and have been tested through their use in Mozilla 1.0's end-
user applications, Mozilla 1.0 enables developers to build
applications for a cross-platform, network-centric world. Mozilla 1.0
also expands the range of developers who can write complex
applications since Mozilla's architecture enables the creation of
such complex applications by building upon the same technologies that
are used to create web content. For instance, Gecko displays web
content on the user's screen and parses and renders HTML and XML
content, and this ability to understand and display HTML and XML is
valuable in numerous applications beyond the browser. In addition,
Mozilla's cross-platform component implementation, Mozilla's cross-
platform XML-based user-interface development technology ("XUL"), its
networking libraries, its ECMAScript (JavaScript) implementation, and
its security and encryption libraries are all part of the Mozilla 1.0
cross-platform toolkit for application development.
"Mozilla.org is excited about releasing the Mozilla 1.0 code and
development tools to the open source community, and providing
developers with the resources they need to freely create and view the
presentation of their content and data on the Web," said Mitchell
Baker, Chief Lizard Wrangler at mozilla.org. "As the browser has
become the main interface between users and the Web over the past
several years, the goal of the Mozilla project is to innovate and
enable the creation of standards-compliant technology to keep content
on the Web open. As more and more programmers and companies are
embracing Mozilla as a strategic technology, Mozilla 1.0 signals the
advent of even further dissemination and adoption of open source and
standards-based software across the Web."
"The Mozilla project has quietly become a key building block in the
open source infrastructure. In addition to the open source Mozilla
browser and the Netscape 7.0 browser, the Mozilla toolkit has been
used to create additional browsers for platforms such as Linux and
Mac OS X, instant messaging clients such as Chatzilla and the cross-
platform Jabber client, and software development tools such as
ActiveState's Komodo IDE," said Tim O'Reilly, Founder and CEO,
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. "Moreover, there are over 70 distinct
projects hosted at mozdev.org, the community site for Mozilla
derivatives. This industry-wide momentum ought to be considered a
major success in anyone's book."
"The release of Mozilla 1.0 represents a huge milestone for the free
software community. From browser technology to software development
tools, the Mozilla project has had an enormous impact on open source
development," said Nat Friedman, Vice President of Product
Development at Ximian Inc. "Most importantly, Mozilla 1.0 is a key
part of an industrial-strength open source desktop."
"The launch of Mozilla 1.0 is a key event for embedders across the
Web, it gives us a stable platform to develop upon in addition to
guaranteed APIs to build applications with," added Philip Langdale,
Mozilla interfacing code maintainer for the Galeon web browser
project. "We would like to congratulate the entire mozilla.org team
for producing such an outstanding product, as key open source
projects including Galeon would not have reached this level of
quality or maturity without their hard work."
By virtue of embedding Gecko, Mozilla 1.0 and products based on
Mozilla code support more web standards, more deeply, more
consistently across more platforms than any others. Mozilla 1.0
features full support for HTML 4.0, XML 1.0, Resource Description
Framework (RDF), Cascading Style Sheets level 1 (CSS1), and the W3C
Document Object Model level 1 (DOM1). Mozilla 1.0 also has the
industry's best support for Cascading Style Sheets Level 2 (CSS2),
the Document Object Model Level 2 (DOM2), and XHTML. Standards
support also includes XML data exchange and manipulation of XML
documents with SOAP 1.1, XSLT, XPath 1.0, and FIXptr, as well as
support for display of mathematical equations using MathML. Finally,
it features a solid foundation of support for data transport
protocols (HTTP, FTP, and SSL/TLS),
multilingual character data (Unicode), graphics (GIF, JPEG, PNG and
MNG) and the latest version of the world's most popular scripting
language, JavaScript 1.5.
Further, Mozilla has been designed for easy localization into
languages other than English, and localized versions of Mozilla 1.0
will be available in the following languages (with more to follow):
Asturian, Chinese, Dutch, Estonian, Galician, German, Georgian,
Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Malay, Polish, Slovak, Sorbian
and Ukrainian. (For further details, please visit
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/l10n/mlp_status.html).
Mozilla 1.0 is available for free download at:
http://www.mozilla.org. For additional information on Mozilla 1.0,
please visit mozilla.org for the Mozilla 1.0 Guide.
Mozilla will celebrate the release of Mozilla 1.0 with a party at the
DNA Lounge in San Francisco at 8pm on Wednesday, June 12, 2002.
Details are available at http://mozilla.org/party/2002/flyer.html.
Additional parties are also being planned by Mozilla participants at
126 locations worldwide. Information on these parties can be found
at: http://www.schnitzer.at/mozparty/.
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Charles Roberto Pilger (charles@helios.unisinos.br)
Webmaster/Webdeveloper do servidor institucional da Unisinos
Work: http://www.unisinos.br Personal:
http://www.charles.pilger.inf.br
"Se você acha a educaçao cara, tente a ignorância" - Derek Bok
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